[January 22, 2014]How
many times will the president play the "race" card? When he sat for
an interview with the New Yorker magazine, the president looked at
his falling poll numbers tanking his job approval and decided the
only thing that people disliked him for was his race. He said,
"There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me
because they don't like the idea of a black president."

Really? Did he not remember he has been elected president twice? He
has reminded the American people of that fact many times. How did
that happen if people don't like him because they didn't "like the
idea of a black president"?

The president likes to use the excuse he
was not informed, or didn't know about something members of his
administration had done, or that nobody told him about something
that morphed into another scandal. Is this another of those
incidents where his close advisers just failed to tell him that
using the race card for his failed policies might fall on deaf ears?

When millions have lost their insurance, placing their health care in
jeopardy, or have lost the physician they have trusted over the
years, was their first reaction to blame the president because he is
black? Perhaps a few, but they are the ones who failed their math
classes in school. When you look at the claims of the signature
insurance law the president enacted exclusively through the Democrat
Party, where 30 million more people would be added to the
insurance program, thousands of doctors would eventually be out of
the health care practice, the math just doesn't add up. When those
who passed the law hadn't even read the bill and were urging passage
so they could read it and "find out what was in it," it is the
troublesome law, not that the president is black.

His approval poll numbers are down because he has failed to take
responsibility for the American citizens who were killed in a
terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. They are down because no one
has been brought to justice; no one has been fired, and even the secretary of
state retorted, "What difference now does it make?"

His close advisers and Cabinet members have failed him by keeping
things from him or lying to him. Why would his closest advisers
allow him to stand repeatedly in front of millions of American
citizens and repeat a story of a video demonstration as the cause of
the murder of the ambassador and three other American citizens? Why
would his advisers allow him to go out in front of millions of
Americans and tell repeated lies about their being able to keep
their policies, keep their doctors and pay less for their policies?

The very fact of his trying to convince Americans at this stage in
his second term, after all the scandals and mishaps, that his fall
from grace has been caused because he is black, simply authenticates
the illegitimacy of the further use of the race card on which to
blame all his troubles. Shame on the close advisers for letting him
blunder into such a morass of political quicksand. It is not
befitting the dignity of the president of the United States. It is
insulting to the intelligence of "we the people" of the United
States.